France
France is a country in Western Europe. The Mediterranean Sea coastline is known as the Côte d’Azur or French Riviera and is around 885 km long. The top seaport on the coastline is the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille. The Port of Marseille Fos is a multipurpose, multi-channel port with infrastructure to handle all types of traffic. Thanks to its geostrategic positioning, at the heart of the Euro-Mediterranean area, and its quadrimodality (road, rail, river and pipelines), it is positioned as one of Europe’s southern gateways. West of Marseille is the Port of Sète, and east of Marseille are a number of smaller ports focussed on tourism and yachting.
Marseille Fos port signs agreement with Alexandria port, Egypt
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Following the first meetings of the MedPorts Forum, the port of Marseille Fos has signed a Memorandum...
Engel & Völkers Yachting ranking: the ten highest priced marinas in Europe
Engel & Völkers Yachting has published its ranking of the ten highest priced marinas in Europe: With a mooring fee of €3,025 per day, Ibiza Magna in...
French Minister of Transport visited Port of Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – The port of Marseille aims to play a major role in the world maritime competition, said Élisabeth...
Spain considers subsidies for relaunching Gijón-Saint Nazaire MoS
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said that the costs for operators...
Paris government nationalise STX France
Nantes St.Nazaire, France, (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The French government will nationalize the STX France shipyard to keep the ship yards under...
Marseille port issues terminal tender
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The Grand Maritime Port of Marseille has issued a tender for the provision of infrastructure and...
DP reports improved H1 2017 TEU traffic
Dubai, UAE (Ports Europe) 25 July 25, 2017 – DP World Limited handled 34.0 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of...
A cruise ship pollutes as much as one million cars
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – A cruise ship pollutes as much as one million cars, in terms of fine particles and nitrogen dioxide,...
Port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire becomes a logistic hub for Airbus
Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire, located on the French Atlantic coast, will become a logistic...
Corsica to compensate carriers who distribute traffic across ports
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Office des Transports de la Corse (Transport Office of Corsica), in partnership with the...
Port de Sète, P&O Ports eye long-term concession
Sete, France (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The French port of Sète and P&O (previously Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) Ports, a...
BlueConnect is now online, and includes ports in France and Italy
Nice, France (PortSEurope) July 15, 2017 – BlueConnect, the port observation platform, is now online, and includes 295 ports in Var, Alpes Maritimes,...
Port of Sète and P&O Ports to relaunch container activity
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – The Port of Sète has announced that the P&O Ports group has been chosen to manage and develop the...
Anti-GMO activists block east entrance to French port of Sète
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – On July 10, some 80 anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) activists blocked the east entrance to the Port of...
Port of Marseille Fos traffic 2% up in H1 2017
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Overall traffic of the port of Marseille Fos in the first half of 2017 shows an increase of 2% compared...
Port of Marseille Fos is a partner of the 17th Economic Forum of Aix-en-Provence
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – French maritime port Marseille Fos is a partner in the 17th Economic Forum of Aix-en-Provence, taking place...
More than 29,000 passengers arrive in Oran in Q1, 2017
Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 –29,146 passengers arrived in the Algerian port of Oran from Spanish and French ports and further 21,069 passengers...
Yildirim to sell 24% stake in CMA CGM
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – CMA CGM has confirmed it is in talks with the Yildirim Group over the sale of the Turkish...
Corsica to create a regional shipping company
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Corsica is in the process of creating a regional shipping company, which will provide ferry services...
Chinese Quechen may set up a plant in French Fos-sur-Mer
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – The Chinese industrial group Quechen Silicon Chemical Co Ltd., the world’s third largest silica producing...